Official Biography of Jennifer Dunn (R-WA)
Republican Congresswoman, Jennifer Dunn, was born in Seattle
on July 29th, 1941. A native of a Bellevue, Washington, Representatvie Dunn
has a long record of state, national, and international service. She served
as Washington State Republican Party Chairman, being re-elected five times
by the Party's state committeemen and committeewomen from 1981 until she
resigned in February of 1992. Her accomplishments with the state party
led to her active involvement with the Republican National Committee, where
she was elected Vice Chairman from the Western Region and served as Chairman
of all the state party chairmen nationwide from 1988 to 1991.
In addition to her state and national party service, Jennifer Dunn
has made several trips abroad representing the United States. She was a
delegate to the 30th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
held in Vienna, Austria in 1984 and also partipated as a member of the
preparatory Commission for the 1985 World Conference on the Status of Women
held in Nairobi. She was asked by former President George Bush to once
again represent the United States at the UNCSW in 1990.
Jennifer Dunn was overwhelmingly elected to her first term in
Congress last November receiving over 60% of the vote. She currently sits
on the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, the Committee on
Science, Space and Technology, and the Committee on House Administration.
Dunn has been outspoken on women's health issues, and a strong advocate of
Congressional reform. She is the only freshman to hold a seat on the Joint
Committee on the Organization of Congress, and she was the first woman ever
appointed to the Republican Committee on Committees.
Dunn is a graduate of Bellevue High School and holds a BA degree
in English literature from Stanford University. She is the mother of two
sons, Bryant, 23, and Reagan, 21.